Your indispensable guide for coaching mastery.
Language is a powerful tool that can unite, engage, and move people to action. It's all in what you choose to say, and how you say it.
In this practical, accessible guide to having more powerful conversations, leading evidence-based coaching expert Haesun Moon offers a set of powerful words or phrases-one for every letter of the alphabet-to help you move others toward greater purpose and accomplishment. Based on her extensive research with the University of Toronto and Harvard Medical School, Moon shows you how to apply each of these concepts to transform the way you relate to others and empower them to strive for and achieve better outcomes. Each entry includes an inspiring real-life example, and reflection questions to help you put it into action in your own life and in the lives of people around you.
Whether you're a leader in business, education, healthcare, the public or non-profit sector-or even in your family-the ability to coach others and support them in achieving their goals is an integral skill one of the most important skills you can master. A guide to return to again and again, Coaching A-Z is an indispensable tool for anyone seeking to master the art of coaching and leadership.
About the Author :
Haesun Moon is widely recognized as a leading expert and educator in evidence-based coaching and the use of language in transforming workplace dialogues. As a researcher and faculty member of The Institute of Coaching at McLean, Harvard Medical School Affiliate, she has developed coaching models and approaches that have been embraced the world over. Haesun teaches at the University of Toronto and serves as Executive Director at the Canadian Centre for Brief Coaching.
Review :
"We are treated here to a festival of wisdom, insight, and creative practices of dialogue--especially relevant for therapists, counselors, and coaches, but indeed for thriving in all our daily relations. A joy to read." --Kenneth J. Gergen, PhD, president, the Taos Institute, author of Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community
"Sometimes a book comes along that makes you say 'WOW, everyone needs this book!' Practical, inspiring, and perspective shifting, Coaching A-Z: The Extraordinary Use of Ordinary Words clearly illustrates the power of language and communication to create and to change realities. Grounded in Haesun Moon's meta theory, the Dialogic Orientation Quadrant, the stories and reflections in each chapter bring narrative strengths-based coaching to life. Filled with personal stories from her family and international coaching experiences, Coaching A-Z reads like an invitation to join Moon's world where there is always something 'else' to be added to the conversation to bring out the best of people and situations. This is a book for all coaches, educators, and parents who want, as Moon's father so often did, to turn trash into treasures. Read it and you will fall in love with words and the ways they can be used to generate delightfully positive and life-affirming possibilities." --Diana Whitney, PhD, founder, Corporation for Positive Change; co-founder, Taos Institute; co-author, The Power of Appreciative Inquiry, Appreciative Leadership, and Thriving Women, Thriving World
"Haesun Moon is an accomplished coach and trainer. Here, she describes the Solution-Focused techniques she uses in conversations with others by sharing personal and professional anecdotes. The result is a forward-looking, competency-based approach to coaching that is persuasive, engaging, and readily understood. Professionals and non-professionals alike will discover much in this book they can usefully carry into their conversations with clients, colleagues, friends, and family." --Peter De Jong, PhD, MSW, co-author, Interviewing for Solutions; professor emeritus, sociology and social work (Calvin University); mental health therapist
"Coaching A-Z is a delightful and insightful guidebook for healing through conversation. Translating years of research and practice into simple, straightforward concepts, it shows how our words and questions can unleash strength, hope, and possibility in ourselves and others." --Amanda Trosten-Bloom, rincipal, Corporation for Positive Change; principal, Rocky Mountain Center for Positive Change; co-author, Encyclopedia of Positive Questions
